Modern Versions of the twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety: Guo Zhu, Isoda Koryūsai, ca. 1770

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Modern Versions of the twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety: Guo Zhu, Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1770, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 10 3/8 x 7 5/8 in. ( x cm), Prints, Isoda Koryūsai (Japanese, 1735–ca. 1790), As his young wife watches raptly, a young man is taking boiling water with a bamboo ladle from an iron tea cauldron in a square hearth set into the tatami mat floor. Behind him a Chinese-style painting of a bird in bamboo is hung before a bird-shaped incense burner in the tokonoma alcove

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